To a woman–I mean, a nice woman–there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
ADA LEVERSONAs a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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It depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can’t be real. It ought to be but it isn’t. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn’t say it.
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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition – only to his getting it.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
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Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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